I decided to by-pass a trip to Vegas this summer due to being so busy with weddings, golf, and work so I'm instead sitting here watching Rory McIlroy run away with the U.S. Open.

To scratch the itch of wanting to play a bunch of poker, I went and played some at the local casino the last few nights. I played in a fairly dead PLO game the first night and a juicy mixed half-NLHE half-PLO game yesterday.

I am admittedly a little rusty in my NLHE game and played a bit nittier than I would have preferred but the PLO games have been great. With Friday nights being some of the busiest nights, the mixed game attracted a lot of NLHE players who didn't feel like waiting an hour or two on the list. They made some pretty elementary PLO mistakes.

It's pretty baffling how bad some people are. One NLHE reg potted the flop of Q83hh and then potted another 70% of his stack when the 9h turned and called off to a reraise. The reraiser had AThh and got an easy double up. This happened all night!

Unfortunately the cards weren't in it for me and most the big pots I played I lost. Here are a few that I lost where pots exceeded 500BBs or more:

T567 on a 89K board AIPF 3-ways with KK and 88
KJ98 on a QT7r board against AQxx where I picked up a flush draw on turn too
4567 on a 237 board against AAQJ and KKKJ

I'm contemplating going tonight if the game is running again but the smokiness of the poker room is really irritating. I'd love to erase the small loss that I took over the two nights but I may just take it easy tonight or catch a movie.